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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Nov 05, 1945
Page
2
The National Farmers Union urged a program giving adequate credit facilities to World War II veterans wanting to buy and equip farms. President James G Patton criticized GI bill farm credit provisions as insufficient and proposed Bankhead Jones act loans at 3 percent with 40 years.
Special to The Gazette Urbana reports that soybean diseases expanded in 1945 due to wet cool weather. William B Allington notes soybean brown spot bacterial blight and brown stem rot affected crops. Rotation of crops is the recommended control measure.
A farmer in three south central Iowa counties warns of widespread soil erosion and deteriorating farm buildings after decades of deferred maintenance. The piece notes government pledges on farm price supports at 90 percent of parity for two years, with hog prices and production levels discussed amid postwar economic shifts.
USDA officials see price support issues as complex. Leon Brown, secretary of the Winneshiek county fair in Decorah, received a letter from a soldier in a southern army camp who sent fifty cents. He explained that in 1941 as a boy he sneaked into the fair without paying a 25 cent kid’s ticket and felt compelled to repay the extra two bits. The act was to clear his conscience.
In Elkader, Vernon Diers reports a 300 percent return from applying 200 pounds per acre of 8-8-8 fertilizer with a plow-sale attachment on corn at $1 per bushel. The fertilized plots yielded 110 bushels per acre versus 97 on untreated areas, with moisture at 15 percent. Diers cooperates with the Clayton county soil district on a full soil and moisture conservation program.
Mr and Mrs Vern Derby of Cedar Rapids purchase the 76 acre E N Weber farm three miles NW of Walker for about 100 dollars per acre. Their son in law and daughter Mr and Mrs Thomas Greear will operate it and move there in January. Greear is a three year veteran of overseas service. The Webers move to Cedar Rapids.
A rural sale 106 miles north of Vinton on the Brandon Vinton road lists 30 cattle including Holstein and Guernsey cows and calves, 90 hogs not yet weaned, general farm tools, and a large inventory of machinery. Equipment includes two tractors John Deere models with cultivators and planters, combines, a Letz mill, a Case mower, hay gear, wagons, and milking units all described as in first class shape.
A detailed closing out sale lists cattle including seven cows with milking history and a Guernsey-Holstein mix, plus a heifer born in July and rebred to calve in May. Machinery includes a Blackhawk corn planter with attachments, hay loader, plows, cultivators, harrow, wagon, and farm tools. Additional items cover harness, beekeeping gear, poultry, bees, brooder, and about 150 chickens. Corn, hay, and a variety of farm goods complete the lineup with quantities and descriptions.
Des Moines AP reports Iowa's 1946 AAA allotment for soil-building payments totals 9.47 million dollars. County committees assign funds to farmers without per-farm maximums, with county officials determining eligible practices and allocations. The 1946 allotment previously stood at 10.228 million.
The East Central Iowa Veterinary Medical Society will hold its monthly dinner in Cedar Rapids at the Montrose hotel Thursday at 6 30 p.m. Dr. R J Beamer announced the program featuring moving pictures from the Belgian Draft Horse Corporation of America and Prime Manufacturing Company of Milwaukee.
A cold north wind and ice on water tanks mark early winter signs as autumn fades in Iowa. Cattle gather in shelter while Orion glowers in the sky and pheasants seek weed patches. Belated huskers watch corn drying as gray November settles in.
A report on Level Farming by J I Case Racine Wisconsin is presented. Dr James M Hood Durant discusses Epithelio genesis Imperfecta Neonatorum in Holstein calves. Dr Glenn W Rieke Victor covers Army Experiences. Additional talks include Blood Testing Swine Brucellosis by Dr H N Strader Marion and Human Pregnancy Test by Dr Allen Lang Iowa City.
Traer businessman Cyrus Tow and his son-in-law H. K. Peterson of Liscomb sold 65 registered Hereford cattle to a New York buyer for a farm near Lafayette Indiana last week. The price was not disclosed.
R K Bliss of Iowa State College reports 1943 1944 corn per farm rose 800 900 bushels over 1938 40. Iowa farm livestock value on Jan 1 1943 was 2.5 times 1940, outpacing national gains. Production increases included hogs eggs milk and poultry per farm despite fewer workers and older equipment. Bliss notes demand remains high as war ends and food remains a central munition of peace.
A sequence of farm auctions listed by date from Tuesday to Saturday. Entries include sellers John Knapp Marion Delbert Kaes ser 444 mi SE of Rowley John J Benish 8 mi S of Cedar Rapids Dirks and Blood 544 mi NW of Anamosa Clif ford Geiger 3 mi S of Brandon Louis Eiben 4 mi E of Central City E C Fink 2 mi S of Spring ville Ed Zatechka 144 mi S of Center Point.
Rep. Francis Case urged amending Rural Electrification Administration law to fund individual farm electrical plants. He argued the REA program cannot service scattered farms as electrification rises nationally from 11 percent in 1935 to over 44 percent today, while South Dakota fell from 36nd to 47th in electrified farms.
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